Improvement in fence-posts



Un TED STATES PATENT QEEIcE.

EDWIN B. PINNEY AND OLIVER L. PINNEY, OF BRUNSWICK, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN FENCE-POSTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l 74,294, datedFebruary 29, 1876; application tiled November 20, 1875.

To all whom it may concer-u Be it known that we, OLIVER L. PINNEY,

and EDWIN R. PINNEY, ot' Brunswick, in

the county of Medina and State of Ohio, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Wood and Iron Fence-Posts5 and we do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description ot theconstruction and operation of the saine, reference being had totheannexed drawings, making a part of this specication, and to the lettersand figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 ot' the drawings is a representation of a plan view of ourfence-post; and Fig. 2

is a vertical central sectional view ot' the saine.

This invention has relation to fenceposts5 and it consists, mainly, in agimlet-pointed, hollow, screw-threaded stub, having a prisiuatic head,terminating in a short cylindricalportion at its upper end, for thereception of the collar of a knee-brace, adjustably attached designedfor receiving the wrench used for screwing the stub into the ground.Above this head b is a short cylindrical portion, g. The stub B ishollow, its upper end. The short cylindrical portion g is embraced by aring, f, formed. cna kneebrace, E, the upper end of which brace isscrew-threaded and passed loosely through a bracket, D, rigidly securedto the post A. Nuts e e are applied on the threaded portion of the braceE,.by adiusting which the post can be set in an upright position, inwhich position it will be sustained by said brace".

What we claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is.-l

1. The hollow giinlet-pointed stub B, having the prismatic part b, andshort cylindrical 4portion g, in com bination with the post A, havingthe tenon a.,snbstantia1ly as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The post A, having tenon a, in combination with the hollow stub B,and adjustable kneebrace E, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that we claim the above, we

EDWIN R. PINNEY. OLIVER L. PINNEY.

Witnesses:

J AMES M. BEEBE, WM. H. ALDEN.

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